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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When did Edwin Chadwick publish his study of sanitation among the laboring classes?
(a) 1840.
(b) 1841.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1842.
2. In The Pump Handle, when was the handle of the Broad Street pump removed?
(a) Friday morning.
(b) Thursday night.
(c) Thursday afternoon.
(d) Friday afternoon.
3. In Building the Case, what was the career of St. Luke's scripture reader?
(a) Butcher.
(b) Grenadier guard.
(c) Professor.
(d) Grocer.
4. In The Ghost Map, when did Snow suffer a stroke?
(a) July 3, 1858.
(b) June 10, 1858.
(c) August 10, 1858.
(d) May 11, 1858.
5. In The Ghost Map, when was there a horrible stench along the banks of the Thames?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1858.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1859.
Short Answer Questions
1. In The Ghost Map, how many miles of sewers were constructed by Bazalgette and his team?
2. In "Sedgwick's Principles of Sanitary Science and Public Health", how many pages are devoted to the Broad Street outbreak?
3. In The Ghost Map, when the new sewer system was designed, when was sewage discharged into the Thames?
4. When was Edwin Chadwick appointed to the Poor Law Commission?
5. How long did it take after Pacini glimpsed bacteria in his microscope for others to make the same discovery?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Building the Case, what did Snow discover that seemed to point to a reason why residents at 50 Poland Street and workers at the Lion Brewery did not contract cholera?
2. How did Whitehead and Snow begin working together in The Pump Handle?
3. In Building the Case, what did Snow learn about water at the Eley Brothers factory and the death of their mother?
4. In The Ghost Map, what short-term impact might Snow's map have had?
5. In The Ghost Map, what did the first map look like that Snow created?
6. When and why would a tailor send one of his boys to get well water at the Broad Street pump in Building the Case?
7. How did Hall's instructions to the three-man committee investigating the cholera outbreak in The Pump Handle, tilt the results?
8. How did Chadwick's career become the origin of the concept of "big government"? (113)
9. How did Henry Mayhew see waste recycling as a way of increasing population growth?
10. In The Pump Handle, what was discovered when a surveyor examined the cesspool at the base of 40 Broad?
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